It's 50 years since a Chronicle photographer captured these night time scenes in Newcastle.
The images come from a set originally taken for a planned feature on nightlife in the city, which never came to print at the time. We see a barmaid hard at work as a couple get to know each other better in the background, three young women enjoying a night on the town, and one man propped up against the wall, seemingly slightly worse for wear. The photographs were taken on October 22, 1972, in a very different Newcastle.
It was a time before the opening of Eldon Square shopping centre changed the character of the city centre, before the arrival of the Tyne and Wear Metro system revolutionised local public transport, before Newcastle United's St James' Park was totally rebuilt, and when you might grab a cuppa at Carrick's cafe on on Market Street, go to the pictures at the Odeon cinema on Pilgrim Street, and catch a bus home from Worswick Street bus station - all of which are now gone.
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